Key Points: The M551 Sheridan was a unique US Army light tank developed in the 1960s, designed to be air-droppable and armed with a novel 152mm gun/missile launcher system. -Rushed into service in ...

In the end, the Army spent $1.3 billion on the M551 Sheridan “Armored Reconaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle”—which was definitely a tank, regardless of the nomenclature—and produced more ...

The U.S. Army's final light tank was the M551 Sheridan, a truly unique weapon. Though it certainly wasn't without its great strengths, it also had shortcomings in some key areas.

Meet the M551 Sheridan: The United States Army has a longstanding tradition of naming its tanks after generals.The current M1 Abrams main battle tank (MBT) was named for Gen. Creighton Abrams of ...

Well, the amphibious M551 light tank, better known as the Sheridan, wasn't the worst of its kind to enter combat, far from it. Still, it was hardly anything to write home about most of the time ...

Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Dwayne Uhlig’s M551 Sheridan tank with the affectionate name of “choke on this.” ... Tank names across the Army. Tank names are a window into tanker culture and humor.

By contrast, the last light tank fielded by the Army was the M551 Sheridan, which saw action in Vietnam, Panama, and was also deployed to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield, and then saw ...

The Stryker Mobile Gun System was meant to fill the void left after the Army retired its last Sheridan light tanks 25 years ago, but in May 2021 the service decided to get rid of those gun systems ...

BAE Systems, responding to the US Army's call for a new light tank, ... It was originally set to go into service in the 1990s after the retirement of the U.S. Army's M551 Sheridan.